Gambit
Real name: Remy LeBeau
Former aliases: None known
Identity: Secret
Occupation: (current) Adventurer, (former) Professional Thief
Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Place of birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
Marital status: Separated from his wife
Known relatives: Jean-Luc LeBeau (father), Bella Donna Boudreaux (wife,
separated)
Base of operations: (current) Xavier Institute, Salem Center,
Westchester County, New York State, (former) New Orleans, Louisiana;
Paris, France; Cairo, Illinois
Group affiliation: (current) X-Men, (former) Thieves Guild (New Orleans)
First appearance: X-MEN (first series) #130
History: A homeless boy wandering the streets, Gambit was adopted by
Jean-Luc LeBeau, head of the council of the Thieves Guild, a criminal
organization based in New Orleans. As part of a peace pact between the
Thieves Guild and their rivals, the Assassins Guild, a marriage was
arranged between Gambit and Bella Donna Boudreaux, the granddaughter of
the head of the Assassins. However, Bella Donna's brother Julien
objected to the marriage and challenged Gambit to a duel. Severely
wounding Julien, Gambit was forced to flee New Orleans to prevent war
between the two guilds.
Gambit wandered the world as he plied his skills as a master thief,
aided by his mutant power to charge objects with explosive energy. He
employed playing cards he charged with kinetic energy as his trademark
weapon. At one point Gambit agreed to assemble the team of assassins
called the Marauders for Mister Sinister. Gambit did not realize that
Sinister would employ the Marauders to massacre the underground mutant
community called the Morlocks.
Eventually, Gambit encountered the X-Man Storm, who had been transformed
into an amnesiac child and who had turned to theft. He helped her escape
her enemy, the Shadow King, and they became partners. Later, when
Professor Charles Xavier returned from a long period of traveling in
outer space, Storm, having regained her memory and true age, sponsored
Gambit's admission into the X-Men. Gambit has remained on the team ever
since and fell in love with his fellow X-Man Rogue. Recently, however,
Gambit and Rogue have grown apart. As for Bella Donna, she has become
Gambit's enemy. Recently, the X-Men learned of Gambit's role in the
massacre of the Morlocks. Guilt-ridden, Gambit has left the team, at
least temporarily.
In the alternate future in which the X-Man Bishop was born, Gambit has
become an aged figure who witnessed the betrayal of the X-Men by one of
their own members. Bishop suspected Gambit was the traitor until he
learned how Xavier's mind spawned the malevolent entity Onslaught.
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Eyes: Red
Hair: Brown
Stength: Gambit is a mutant who possesses the normal human strength of a
man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular
exercise.
Fighting skills: Excellent hand-to-hand combatant, utilizing
streetfighting techniques and acrobatics
Special skills and abilities: Bilingual in English and French, ability
to throw small objects, including knives, throwing spikes, and playing
cards, with extraordinary accuracy
Known superhuman powers: Gambit has the mutant ability to tap into the
potential energy contained within an object and transform it into
kinetic energy. When Gambit thus charges an object with kinetic energy
and throws it at a target, the object releases this energy explosively
on impact.
Personal weaponry: Throwing spikes and playing cards